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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 18, 2017 Page 10 Willmus noted that an approach like this was what got the city into trouble in cer- tain areas requiring needing bonding to address certain areas where maintenance had been deferred and ultimately impacting what the city could do for emergency services, since all the pieces of the picture were tied together. Commissioner Bachhuber thanked the City Council for this very helpful discus- sion, opining that Items 3, 4 and 5 linked together well. In general, Commissioner Bachhuber noted that all were cognizant that there wasn't sufficient money avail- able to cover all items in the CIP. However, in considering prioritization, Com- missioner Bachhuber suggested the first things taken care of should be for health, safety or if regulatory in nature and prior to adding any new CIP items until the city could pay for those assets already in place. Commissioner Bachhuber opined that this provided a responsible spending plan going forward until the CIP can be further considered. Councilmember McGehee agreed that was a nice summary of how to handle the CIP, and as noted by Mayor Roe, the CIP involved almost exclusively taking care of rehabilitating existing assets. Councilmember McGehee opined that the prob- lems developed when the city didn't do this (e.g. Park Improvement Program un- funded). Councilmember McGehee opined that she found the most recent golf course clubhouse/community building proposal to be the best proposal she'd seen in terms of identifying revenue sources and annual maintenance costs. Mayor Roe opined that a challenge with a numerical priority approach to the CIP schedule was that eventually all CIP areas will need to be done, but also noted that there was flexibility built in to adjust timing; and while something could still protect health and safety and be a higher priority in a given year, the challenge facing the city with numerical priority rankings was in addressing and adjusting that scale and timeframe without applying numbers to the entire 50-page CIP document. Mayor Roe noted that the City Council had asked staff to identify new items not originally planned for CIP items on an annual basis or what could be de- ferred along with their rationale in making any changes to the schedule to help the City Council better understand their decision-making process. Mayor Roe stated that this process will hopefully perform according to the policy. Mayor Roe agreed with his colleagues that before providing more or better direc- tion to the commission, the full City Council needed further discussion, and asked the commission to provide additional feedback based on tonight's discussions be- fore that discussion occurs. Updated CIP Funding Recommendation by Specific Fund (Attachment E) Commissioner Harold advised that this was a breakdown of the tracking chart and had been presented at the last joint meeting, with the commission thinking it was prudent to include it as part of the 2018 budget process and commission recom- mendations.